Kano APM gov candidate pledges job creation to curb drug addiction

The Kano State governorship candidate on the platform of the Allied Peoples Movement, General Ibrahim Sani Yakasai, on Sunday, pledged that if elected the state governor, he would prioritise creation of employment opportunities.

While unveiling his blueprint at Mambayya house, Yakasai pointed out that idleness, due to lack of employment, has compelled some Kano youths to embrace drug addiction, a vice that leads to crimes against the society.

According to him, if elected Kano governor, he would as a matter of priority create employment opportunities for Kano teeming youths, so as not only to keep them busy but to engage them towards the economic development of the state, as as adding value to the quality of their individual and collective lives.

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“When youths are gainfully engaged, they will not think of engaging in drug addiction because an idle mind is in the devils workshop. Once the youths are engaged in contributing their quota to the socio-economic development of the state, it would lead to the reduction of crime,  as studies have since linked drugs addiction to those, who commit crimes, due to the influence of drugs. ”

Apart from that, Yakasai promised that he would ban street hawking by innocent young girls, who the process were often lured and sexually abused. The governorship hopeful categorically stated that when he mounts the saddle of leadership of Kano state, he will restore sanity in that direction.

Yakasai also promised to focus on the provision of health care as well as concentrate on agriculture and the reactivation of dead industries in Sharada and environs.

Furthermore, he promised that he would restore the lost agricultural glory of Kano, where the metropolis prides itself, with groundnut pyramids, as well as restore industrialisation by focusing on power generation to power the industries that will in turn fresh employment opportunities and place the state a solid economic foundation and revives its status as the commercial hub in the North, second to Lagos.